﻿# Codebook for "Do Voters Count? Institutions, voter turnout, and public goods provision in India" by Irfan Nooruddin and Joel W. Simmons. 



Besides this document, you'll find the following files in this folder. 

- Do_Replication.do

- Data_IndiaElectionYr_Stata10.dta

- Data_IndiaAnnual_Stata10.dta

- ENEP_India_Stata10.dta



"Do_Replication.do" is a STATA script that will replicate all tables and figures reported in the manuscript. 



"Data_IndiaElectionYr_Stata10.dta" is a time-series cross-sectional database for the Indian states, 
where the temporal dimension includes only years during which there was an election in state i. 



"Data_IndiaAnnual_Stata10.dta" is a time-series cross-sectional database for the Indian states, 
where the temporal dimension includes all years. Variables typically only measured during election years (like voter turnout) are smoothed across nonelection years



"ENEP_India_Stata10.dta" is a time-series database that measures the effective number of electoral parties in India over time.  The citation for these data is 
as follows: Matt Golder. 2005. “Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World, 1946-2000.” Electoral Studies 24: 103-121.

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To replicate the results in the paper, open "Do_Replication.do". Upon doing that, you should be able to run the entire script at one time if you so choose. 